Stage plays
There is nothing else like seeing your characters and hearing your words come to life in front of a live audience. I am proud of my theatrical roots and always look forward to returning to them.
ScreenPlay was one of those rare occurrences for a writer in that it poured out of me in maybe eight sittings and hardly a word ever changed.
It tells the story of Graham and Dean, who were high school buddies both with stars in their eyes. Graham is now a dot-com millionaire and Dean a complete failure as a screenwriter. They reacquaint as adults and make a Faustian backroom deal for one of Deans scripts.
As the story careens toward Oscar night, everyone around them is hurt by their desperate secrets.
““Dean and Grahamʼs parasitic rivalry is deeply developed enough to power two decades of alternating brotherhood and acrimony, and the history they share of wanting to make it despite adversity, is compelling...””
“Brooks’ razor sharp dialogue flies around the space as each of his characters try to evade it, but in the end everyone is cut in some way. ”
Bag Fulla Money was developed and produced by the Tony Award winning Sunnyspot Productions and had a limited Off Broadway run at the Harold Clurman Theatre on 42nd St.
I got this idea in my head for a scene in a play - A guy is tied to a chair center stage next to a table. On the table is a huge pile of cash.
A couple years and about a hundred staged readings later what I got was Bag Fulla Money.
The press called it a "fast and furious four-letter-word farce that flies with machine gun dialogue that crackles with wit, grit and hysterics... tells the tale of the chef, his girl and six others in an effort to out wit, out con and out last each other and make off with millions of dollars.”
This dark thriller garnered an acting award in the Midtown International Theatre Festival.
It is the story of a murder in a duplex apartment in Manhattan and some greedy real estate agents who try to take advantage of it.